Marshall High School - Marshaline Yearbook (Marshall, MO)

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L-Yu -ff -V-J ,mu ,-, W.. . ,. ....,- ISSOURI Valley Col- lege, a co-educational school owned by the Presby- terian Church U. S. A. was founded in 1888. It has a faculty of twenty members, and a student enrollment of two hundred and thirty-two. There is a beautiful forty-acre campus with seven buildings -the main building, the Mur- rell Memorial Library, two Dormitories, Stewart Chapel, Morrison Gymnasium and the power-house. The college has returned to Saline County approximately 2,500 former students and alumni. I l I EORGE A. MURRELL, a pioneer of Marshall and Saline County, left thirty thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting a public library for the use of the people of Marshall, and the students of the college. The building was completed in the fall of 1927, at a cost of 390,000.00 r2'i '--.NNN f, viuiniuinininviniuisvtuini,ni.,-i,,5,,i,,i,,i,,L,,.i,,L.,iu H , U 0 , . 5 if i 5 is i vioig Pugc 1.8